The Study of Superheroes

This is a very serious meeting that took place, to determine "how spider man shoots his webs and what the webs look like." ;0) 

 Yes!  We are twisting our love for superheroes into a project!  It has taken several discussions between the teachers, art director, and the students to come up with the perfect plan for our  Spider Man Spider Web!The first thing we did was spell "spider", "spider web", and type in "how do spiders spin their webs" into our class computer.  We watched the spiders spin their webs, and studied pictures of the webs.  After we were sure we knew what the webs looked like, we drew a picture of what we wanted our web to look like. 

We all contributed to the picture and we all helped each other sound out and spell the word.......Next, we took our plan to the art studio and talked to Ms. Marjon about our plan. 

She let the children roam the studio to look at the materials available to them, and they picked the WIRE!

She asked how many rings were in the web and it took us about an hour to decide!  Everyone said a different number.  We heard 3, 2, 7, and 4.  We took a vote, and in the end we all agreed on 3!

So now we had to determine how the rest of the web would look...............

This is what Mateo thought.........

Kiersten told him that the lines shouldn't go on the outside, "Yours looks like the Sun!", she said.  "Spider webs have the lines on the inside like this......."

Ms. Marjon took the blue print and created the giant "Spider Man Spider Web"...........

We all got to work putting our fine motor skills to work and started weaving our spider web........

Look at how tight some of our work is..

The spider web is well along its way, and we will continue to work on it a little every day until we are satisfied with our product!

Banana Sunflowerseed Cookies

Our sunflower project just wouldn't be complete with out testing our our culinary skills!  We are adding Banana Sunflower Cookies to our Wonderland Cookbook.

Since we loved sunflower seeds so much, we found this Banana Sunflower Cookie recipe online.........

http://www.yumyum.com/recipe.htm?ID=7937

We are such cooking experts now, that we don't even need our teachers help! ;0)

Everyone was in favor of the cookies, even our children who didn't like the sunflower seeds enjoyed these cookies!  This is a great recipe for the kids to make with you at home, it was simple, healthy and delicious!!!!

Sunflowers

One of our sweet parents brought us these beautiful sunflowers!

They were such an inspiration for us.....

We organized our art materials around the beautiful shades found in the sunflowers.  Who wouldn't want to paint after seeing these shades of browns, greens, yellows, and oranges????

Through out the days, the children took turns drawing and painting sunflowers......

One of the highlights was when Luke and Jennifer were painting.  After a few minutes of being in the art area, we came to see that they "actually DID paint the sunflowers!"  ;0)

When the children came to stop them and ask them why they did that, they replied, "we wanted to make them beautiful!"  Awwwwww, they are beautiful, don't you think?

Alexandre brought sunflower seeds to school for our class to try!  He stood up during our afternoon meeting with Ashley, and they told the class about sunflower seeds.  We had a wonderful conversation about sunflowers.

We asked, "why are they called sunflowers?"

Kiersten said, "Because they grow in the sun!"

Ashley said, "Because when they are baby sunflower plants, they turn and grow towards the sun."

Good theories, don't you think??

We asked, "which part of the flower do the sunflower seeds come from?"

Ashley said, "The stem", so, we took a knife and split open the stem!

Kyle looked really close.....but he couldn't find any seeds! ;0)

Now where should we look??????

"The big green part in the back!" said some of the children.........but no seeds there either!

"Maybe if you take the petals out you can find them!"

But there were no seeds when we took out the petals!

There were two more places left to look, the leaves and the big, brown center of the flower.  The children picked the brown part, and guess what!!!!!

We found them!!!!

The children all helped pick them out, and then we tasted the sunflower seeds! Yummy!

We all loved them except for 3 of us! 

Some of us loved them so much, we couldn't eat them fast enough! ;0)

Our beautiful sunflowers are hanging up in our room for all to admire, and stay tuned to hear how our sunflower banana cookies come out! MMmmmmm